The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of extraordinary.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

Researchers discovered a royal tomb that is over 3,600 years old in Abydos, Egypt. The entryway of the tomb was decorated ...

A 2,000-year-old gladiator tomb has been discovered in a necropolis ... The Liternum gladiator was buried in a deep rectangular pit carved out of stone, suggesting a link with religious cult ...

A photo shows one unidentified artifact, which looks like a stone mosaic. An unidentified artifact found in a military leader’s tomb in Ismailia Governorate. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of ...

Experts believe they have uncovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The legendary ... claims that some of the treasures found in the king’s resting ...

Among the artifacts found inside the tomb were a gold ring with a semi-precious stone signet depicting Apollo with a healing serpent, two gold coins replicating Hellenistic coinage, and several ...